hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Donald Duck: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely 2 days ago:
The only ethical thing you can do with $1 billion.
- Comment on You're so predictable 2 days ago:
Because million would be incorrect.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 days ago:
You mean having an AI watch everything you do isn’t a good selling point?
- Comment on You're so predictable 2 days ago:
I did a cursory glance at the groups to see that it was 428 rnillion, so I think that’s enough.
- Comment on If it happened, would anybody even question it? 4 days ago:
Fuck man, I’ve been looking for a place to get a good opstume.
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 4 days ago:
To a physicist, sure. To the lay public, observe means you’re watching it. If you’re looking away, you’re not observing. When in reality, it doesn’t matter who’s looking, if the particle is interacting with other particles, it’s being “observed”.
- Comment on plump pumkins 4 days ago:
Mass. Whatever. :P
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 4 days ago:
I’d like to nominate Observer Effect for the Worst and Most Confusingly Named Thing Ever award.
Funny meme though.
- Comment on plump pumkins 5 days ago:
Well, I doubt they can get larger than earth, so I’d say it’s somewhere between 3,000 lbs and earth’s weight.
- Comment on Is compressed air the best way to clean my pc that I consider dusting once every 2 years? 6 days ago:
Yeah. It won’t damage it with static electricity or physical contact. Unless you’re using some really powerful air pressure.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 6 days ago:
The Mini PC would be a lot easier. The RPi needs things to be built for ARM, and not everything is. The RPi is also slower and isn’t repairable.
RPis are great for many things, but generic home servers aren’t one of them, unless you really need clustering for some reason (like, a Ceph cluster).
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Not that it isn’t wildly ridiculous and stupid to have an internet connected bed, but couldn’t you just unplug it if it’s overheating?
- Comment on So admins, hows your instances looking today? 1 week ago:
My personal Mastodon instance is doing great. It runs on my old gaming desktop in my living room. Haven’t had any downtime today, so I can say with 100% confidence that my living room has better 24 hour uptime than Amazon right now. Who wants to buy some compute time from my living room?
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
My wife and I are at Disneyland today, and their site is down. xD
- Comment on it's that time 1 week ago:
Omg. xD
Octopus, an animal famous for having no bones.
- Comment on it's that time 1 week ago:
With ribs all the way down. xD
Even if it were accurate, it still wouldn’t be accurate.
- Comment on it's that time 1 week ago:
Is that a fucking
SCORPION SKELETON???
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 1 week ago:
hurts so good
- Comment on You mean there's a better way‽ 1 week ago:
But then how would you store it in the fridge without the cardboard shards to wrap it in?
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 2 weeks ago:
I was watching something on a Roku TV through HDMI, when an ad came up at the bottom of the screen for watching the same thing through some streaming service. What the actual fuck??? I’m already watching it!!
- Comment on How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people? 2 weeks ago:
For most of those services, you’re looking at a few days to assemble and set up a server. For email, plan to spend the next month learning and troubleshooting.
You can run all of that on basically any computer. If you have an old desktop, that would work great.
Email often isn’t possible to self host because many ISPs block outbound connections on port 25. But, you can host it on some VPS providers, like DigitalOcean. The IP they give you will almost certainly have a terrible reputation and result in a lot of your mail going into people’s spam folders. So, you’ll have to spend some time contacting IP blacklist providers.
Another option is to host the inbound SMTP servers, and handle outbound through a relay server. I’m not gonna recommend any, because I’m not too familiar with them.
I know a fair bit about running email services, because I created and run port87.com, a fairly new email service. I had to learn a lot about email to build it.
- Comment on Then and Now 2 weeks ago:
It took him thirty years to eat the back part of the TV?
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, kitchen appliance usually means powered by gas or electricity, but if something is powered by gravity, it’s still an outside power source. So that’s what I would say the difference is.
A mortar and pestle is powered by your own movement. A filter pitcher is powered by gravity. So I would so that it’s an appliance because of that. A sieve and a slotted spoon are a harder delineation, since they both are partially powered by gravity. I would say that because they have no moving parts, they are not machines, and so may not be considered appliances, but that’s only my own thoughts, not a dictionary definition requirement. Topologically, a sieve and a filter pitcher are basically the same thing. So that’s a conundrum.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 2 weeks ago:
I would say it falls under definition 2b here:
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 2 weeks ago:
False. My water filter pitcher does not turn energy into heat.
(Ok, fine, it uses gravity to move the water through a filter, which technically converts some of the potential energy of the water into heat through friction, but that’s not something the pitcher does, that’s something the earth does that the pitcher uses to its advantage.)
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
The shape of the roots of the shrubs is somewhat exaggerated. Many do go that deep, but they’re not that wide all the way down. There are only a few types that grow roots that look like that.
There are also deep root grasses if you want a lawn, but don’t want to ruin your soil.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 3 weeks ago:
But you don’t know if the equation they used was for if the owl is swimming through the deep ocean. That would take a lot of calories.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 3 weeks ago:
You can’t fact check something that doesn’t provide any of its work. Where did they get those numbers from? What equations did they use, and do they actually apply to this situation?
Since it’s non-falsifiable, you can just disregard it. Claims require evidence, not assertions.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
This mostly only happens to companies with outside investors, and it’s in order to make the investors happy.
Companies owned privately by one or a handful of people who all just want the company to keep going, make a decent profit, and be sustainable, don’t always exhibit the “need for growth” behavior.
It’s usually because the investors don’t really give a shit about the company or its mission, they just want money.
- Comment on beans 🫘 3 weeks ago:
Whats wrong, sweetie. You’ve barely touched your refried fetuses.